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Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> writes: |
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> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:22:38PM -0700, Anupam Kapoor wrote: |
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> [...] |
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>> i am not sure i understand how it is related to spawning multiple |
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>> consoles during system boot. |
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> I'm not sure, but I believe that the following commands will create the vc's |
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> (which is not what you want): |
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> echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/vc/${x} |
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> or |
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> echo -ne "\033(K" > /dev/tty${x} |
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> in /etc/init.d/consolefont (in case you don't have consolechars) |
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> By delimiting ${x} to the number of VC's you want you make sure that the |
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> kernel only starts that number of xterms when loading the UML... |
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i think the consoles are created by devfsd, with : |
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MAKEDEV /dev/vc/XXX c 4 .... |
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or some such. |
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i think 'echo' does not create any devices. |
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kind regards |
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anupam |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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> -- |
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> Thanks to DRM, you know that something has been built in environment of |
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> unspecified degree of security, from source you cannot check, written by |
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> programmers you don't know, released after passing QA of unknown quality and |
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> which is released under a license that disclaims any responsibility... |
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...mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. |
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